Replace: I used to be lacking the stats for GBG World as a result of my database didn’t decide them up. (They’re in a non-standard format.) I’ve added them manually and up to date the story. For an instance of an awesome stats web page, take a look at Baller Nation’s stats or Discovery Grid’s stats or Alternate Metaverse’s stats. The default Diva WiFi web page from DreamGrid additionally works. The numbers I pull are the whole registered customers, whole 30-day actives (together with each native and hypergrid), and land space in commonplace area equivalents (or sq. meters). The much less stuff on the web page and the less complicated the formatting, the simpler it’s to arrange the scraping algorithm.
Attributable to an OSgrid consumer modeling all of North America, the whole variety of standard-sized areas in OpenSim continues to be an astronomical 973,193.
Land is land, and loads of individuals put up areas in OpenSim that no person ever makes use of as a result of land is so low-cost — even free, in the event you run them by yourself computer systems — so on the one hand, I ought to depend these.
Then again, it would make my bar chart completely unimaginable to learn! So I’m leaving these areas out, and counting OSgrid as if it solely had the 35,873 areas it did earlier this yr, earlier than the grand geography experiment, plus the 1,373 areas it added up to now month — for a complete of 37,246 — as a substitute of the 864,410 it’s reporting now.
Anyway, that individual weirdness apart, OpenSim’s business grids reported 12,308 extra commonplace area equivalents this month, 366 fewer registered customers, and 14 fewer energetic customers.
Eleven grids had been marked as suspended this month: Eenhgrid, Gabngio, Gridworld, KittyBlue, Lonetree, Moonlighting Grid, Nitro, Paradise Metropolis, SiLi, Six Sides, and VR-ESC. Some grids closed for good, together with Canadian Grid.
By my depend, OpenSim now has the equal of 159,922 commonplace area equivalents, 46,230 energetic customers, and 491,935 registered customers.
Our stats don’t embrace many of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Should you provide area leases and are usually not on this checklist, electronic mail me!
You possibly can obtain the beneficial Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we might be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new associates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 11,274 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,258 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,606 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,303 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,032 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,542 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,535 energetic customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,502 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 1,384 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 1,036 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 916 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 855 energetic customers
- Craft World: 827 energetic customers
- Sanctum Astra: 826 energetic customers
- BloodMoon: 817 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 787 energetic customers
- Get together Vacation spot Grid: 786 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 782 energetic customers
- Mild Hearth Grid: 548 energetic customers
- SpaceGrid: 435 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 430 energetic customers
- Kitely: 394 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 386 energetic customers
- Astralia: 384 energetic customers
- Vivo Sim: 365 energetic customers
Canadian Grid shuts down
Canadian Grid — to not be confused with the Nice Canadian Grid, which can be closed — has shuttered its doorways as a result of a scarcity of curiosity, grid proprietor Chris Strachan informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Usually, when a grid shuts down, there are individuals worrying about learn how to switch their areas, content material, avatars, and scheduled occasions to their new grids — and I write an article concerning the migration.
That’s not the case right here, for the reason that grid had none of these issues. Since we began monitoring the grid a yr in the past, it had a most of 13 guests a month, with one month the place it simply had three.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 21,137 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,907 product variations, 36,620 of that are bought with the Export permission, in accordance with Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 666 OpenSim grids to this point.
The numbers are all up for the reason that begin of the yr, and, as at all times, practically all the expansion has been in exportable content material. Because of this consumers can have their purchases delivered on to avatar inventories on different grids, and that they’ll journey to different grids with the content material.
Within the early days of OpenSim, many creators thought-about this to be a safety danger, and non-exportable content material dominated. However creators shortly realized that the majority copybotted content material truly comes from Second Life, the place every part is non-exportable. And, typically, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t trouble to examine merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As a substitute, permitting individuals to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at affordable costs destroys the copybot financial system fully, leaving solely a handful of freebie shops on grids that haven’t but seen that they exist and brought them down.
One other supply of reputable content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away at no cost. Many official freebie shops on OpenSim grids provide these merchandise.
That is much like how Netflix and different low-cost and free streaming surfaces dramatically decreased on-line film piracy.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of economic authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The directions for learn how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, every time obtainable, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests every time potential.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a checklist of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 37,246 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 33,258 areas
- Kitely: 17,840 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 17,049 areas
- Groovy Verse: 14,979 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 11,180 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,405 areas
- Neverworld: 2,634 areas
- GBG World: 1,951 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Buddies Grid: 1,168 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
- Sub-Model House: 1,065 areas
- Craft World: 1,030 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 910 areas
- AviWorlds: 812 areas
- Kinky Haven: 685 areas
- AvatarLife: 615 areas
- Unique Realities: 603 areas
- Digital Worlds Zone: 558 areas
- Littlefield: 533 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 423 areas
- Furry World: 358 areas
- EdMondo: 310 areas
- BloodMoon: 272 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 241 areas
- OliGrid: 214 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 201 areas
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 199 areas
- Adreans-World: 170 areas
- Kater and Buddies: 162 areas
- SpaceGrid: 157 areas
- Utopia Skye: 147 areas
- I Love You Grid: 147 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- Logicamp: 133 areas
- Outworldz: 129 areas
Have you learnt of another grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at [email protected].
